China
News and analysis about China, a country with the world’s second-largest economy, a terrible record on human rights, and global ambitions.
Beijing’s opening ceremony featured Vladimir Putin, thousands of Chinese teenagers, and a lot of loaded politics.
The number of human-made existential risks has ballooned, but the most pressing one is the original: nuclear war.
The pandemic has only accelerated a decline in US birth rates, even as immigration has plummeted.
Forecasting what’s shaping up to be another bumpy year.
Our batting average in forecasting 2021.
Beijing will win the gold medal for lockdowns.
It’s more “symbolic than substantial,” but that doesn’t mean it’s consequence-free.
The tennis star’s disappearance is part of a larger pattern of censorship and misogyny.
Samuel Bickett is trying to appeal his conviction — and prove the rule of law still exists in Hong Kong.
A top Pentagon software official recently quit his job, claiming that the US is dragging its heels.
A university’s orders to remove a Tiananmen Square monument show how deep Beijing’s Hong Kong crackdown goes.
Why is the Chinese military sending so many planes near Taiwan?
The global aftershocks of Covid-19 and the economic crisis it caused, explained.
Cotton’s connection to forced labor by Uyghurs in Xinjiang ought to have you rethinking fast fashion.
The national security law has stifled democracy in the global financial center.
“We become collateral damage every time there’s US-Asia conflict.”
One year on, the first national security trial shows how.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Axios interview is another example of this worrying trend.
Turnout for the vigil was down, though some protesters defied orders.
If a war breaks out over Taiwan, Biden may be forced into a decision no American president since 1979 has wanted to make.
There’s an inescapable tension that might lead to unpalatable trade-offs.
Joey Siu, an activist featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary, talks about the protests and China’s national security crackdown.
The US government is contemplating how to shape AI policy. Competition with China looms large.
Over half the coal plants under development globally are in China, and the country isn’t slowing down, a new report found.
US-China relations are in the gutter. Experts say Biden shouldn’t try to fix that.
To be legitimate climate leaders on the world stage, the US and China must start by raising ambition at home.
The US-China meeting was going to be tense. Few expected it to be that combustible.
A decade-old idea — a four-nation group to curb China’s aggression — is about to have a big moment.
Another blow to Hong Kong.
From internment camps to mass sterilization, here’s why the ethnic minority’s birthrate is plunging.
Cotton is urging economic warfare to send the Chinese Communist Party into the “ash heap of history.”
Biden won’t back down against major US adversaries — but he won’t just feud with them, either.
Many feared the US would make unsavory concessions to China to ensure climate change progress. Kerry says “that’s not going to happen.”
The US State Department’s declaration was a long time coming.
A sign China is stepping up its national security law to crush Hong Kong’s civil society.
America’s dominance wasn’t by happenstance. It was a choice.
This is a major problem for the United States and other democracies.
All three countries have begun acknowledging the climate impact of their coal power investments overseas
Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam pleaded guilty to participating in an unsanctioned protest in 2019.
China’s emergency vaccine program is a risky proof of concept for large-scale Covid-19 vaccine deployment.